Programme
BERNARD VIVANCOS: Ritual I per a doble quartet de corda (2022) 30′ – Estrena mundial, encàrrec de L’Auditori
FRANZ SCHUBERT: Quartet de corda n. 14 “La mort i la donzella”, D 810 (1824) 40′
Death is a hovering and ominous presence in Schubert's work. His lied Das Tod und der Mädchen (Death and the Maiden) takes a poem by the German Matthias Claudius based on a very common theme in European art since the Renaissance: the personified image of death attacking, abducting or threatens a maiden of virginal appearance. The main theme of this song was the seed for one of the Viennese composer's best-known string quartets. A genre, the quartet, that Schubert recovered from 1820, after many years of not dedicating himself to it, with extraordinary results.
The work of Bernat Vivancos, strongly influenced by the years at the Escolania de Montserrat, proposes a very particular connection with nature and sound, with the search for beauty, sensuality and spirituality. We will be able to hear, in absolute premiere and commissioned by L'Auditori, where this year he is resident composer, the work Ritual I for double string quartet, a singular and little-explored template in the classical repertoire.
Performers
Hanson Quartet
Arod Quartet (courtesy of Erato/Warner Classics)
